Category Archives: Cowboy Boots

A Guy’s Daily Boot Care

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Chipshinelug28I admit it — I am a typical guy when it comes to things like caring for boots. I don’t want to take time to strip wax, condition the leather, and build a mirror shine finish on my leather boots. Well, I have a few exceptions, but the general rule is: pull ’em on or lace ’em up, mount the saddle of my Harley, and be off.

Who wants to waste time shining boots? Conditioning leather? I have more important things to do than sit around fiddling with boot care products.

Yep, I’m a typical guy when it comes to this stuff. Many motorcops I know feel the same way.

So what does THIS Bootman do when confronted with questions via email asking, “since you have so many boots, you must care for them. What do you recommend?”
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Dress Boots

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A friend of mine asked me to explain what I consider to be “dress boots.” These are boots that go well with suits and dress clothes worn to work in an office, to church, or for dressy social occasions.

Many men search for information on whether or not they should wear boots with dress clothes. I am a firm believer in doing that, and I do every day. I do not own any dress shoes, so when the occasion calls for dressing up for meetings with The Big Cheese or to attend a wedding, church service, or a formal event, here are some descriptions and suggestions for men’s dress boots.
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Comfortable Boots

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BootstorageJan201502For a guy who owns hundreds of pairs of boots, one would think that I would only have boots that are comfortable. Well, mostly that is true, but not for all of them.

Especially now that two things have changed with time: boots age and insoles do not get any softer, and feet age and are not as flexible and tolerant of discomfort as they are when they were young. This is especially true for guys who go from a slim/trim/athletic 120 pounds in their early 20s to … well, middle-age spread. The more weight you carry, the more uncomfortable boots will become.

So here is how this more-than-middle-aged boot wearer deals with boot comfort issues…
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When A Sale Is Not A Sale

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Sheplers is a well-regarded western wear retailer. There are some 23 brick-and-mortar Shelpers stores in nine states along with a huge on-line retail business. A lot of guys (and gals) have purchased western wear, including boots, from Sheplers over the years. What may not be well-known, however, is that Sheplers was purchased by “Boot Barn Holdings” in July, 2015, and Boot Barn’s on-line retailing schemes are appearing on Shepler’s website. Those schemes are deceiving, so I am calling them out. Here’s what I have observed …
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Website Boot Pages With Highest Click Through Rate

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I have an interesting non-invasive piece of software on all 729 of my website’s pages that gives me interesting summary information about website visits.

An intriguing detail shows the “click-through-rate” which my software defines as:

what percentage of people exposed to my website using Google for a given search actually clicked on the result for my website.

Here are the results of what types, styles, and manufacturers of boots draw the most visitors to pages on my website as a result of a google search.
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Growing Into Western Boots

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LucRattlejeansGoing with my sorta new “theme” for posts for this blog, I am writing more about boots and links back to my website which google’s algorithm is dutifully ignoring.

Over the years, I have gotten questions about how I learned about cowboy (western) boots, and how I changed my boot-buying and wearing habits. Here goes…
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